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Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.
William Monahan
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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.
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I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.
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The only answer to Are you Beatles or Stones? is, I'm both.
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I learned from Ridley [Scott] how to come out of the trailer at a fast walk and make your decisions and keep it going. We were very much on time and under budget, as they say. That was a very important thing for me and very satisfactory.
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When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.
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I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson.
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When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.
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I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.
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I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.
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